Will it Fly Part 2
I made this!
Motors fitted, speed controller hooked up, wings on.
What could go wrong?
Trying to make a hobby grade plastic model that's not supposed to fly, fly!
Series not intended to be as long as Binky, but could well end up that way.
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Mon 6 Sep 2021, 1:04,
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Look, as long as it ends in a fireball, people will be happy.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 6 Sep 2021, 16:06,
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lol. Really dont want to make it deliberate.
Going to try my best to make this or a bigger version actually fly. I know that disasters get more views, but i want to be honest about it. Plus i dont have the money to throw down the drain. There's already too many nazgay bastwanks on Youtube faking stuff. Plus if it doesnt fly it will make a lovely desk fan :)
Still waiting for Alibaba to deliver the radio gear for it....think his magic carpet ran out of magic !
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Mon 6 Sep 2021, 19:32,
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Okay I'm a little bit inspired...
I have one or two of those gadget shop pocket sized 4 bladed drones. They have a battery life of about 2 minutes (which would be hackable with a bigger aircraft), and they are already remote controlled. The joystick controller and drone brain think they're a drone, but I bet I can hack that to just have 4 props with variable power.
Shove them in the engine nacelles of a 4 prop airfix model, in a symmetrical fashion with two going clockwise and two going anti, that should give me yaw and, I think roll..? Maybe if I have two pointing slightly upwards and two pointing slightly downwards that could give me pitch.
Making landing gears light enough yet strong enough to cope with my piloting skills is possibly what kills my cheap idea. I guess I could just use balsa wood skids on springs or collapsible paper.
Fuckit, the whole plane could be made of paper.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Mon 6 Sep 2021, 20:51,
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Cheat
www.flightstore.co.uk/aviation-gifts-c221/childrens-gifts-c229/playroom-c1369/lancaster-inflatable-plane-p13838
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 6 Sep 2021, 22:04,
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I thought about going that route for the Mozzy,
but the model currently weighs 250 grams, add battery pack,servos, reciever and the rest of the furniture to the model and you end up with something like 4-500grams.
The bigger the brick, the more power is required to make it move. Most toy drones are around 20 grams.
Trust me, I was as impressed that it dragged itself across the shed floor at 10% power, but there is a casm of difference between that and powered flight. 99% of me says it will brick, but that niggling 1% of "what if" is spurring me on! Oh and a good dose of British fuckit n do it! So basically, YES, go for it :)
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Tue 7 Sep 2021, 0:11,
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I got bored of all my airfix models taking space on my shelves when I got late teens
I had dozens, mad amounts. I took them to the top of Brawn House, a local 21 storey block of flats and dropped them off one by one to see if any would fly.
Some began to to flatten out before they hit the ground, but not much. The best were models of A300 airbus that came with packs of cornflakes, they were so close to pulling out of the dive.
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simbosan liked your link on, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 1:47,
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:) was same , although mine were ended with fireworks.
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Tue 7 Sep 2021, 2:02,
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